System for transforming using interface image segments and constructing user interface objects

ABSTRACT

Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for user interface construction based on image segmentation, transformation of user interface image segments, and construction of user interface objects. The system is configured to capture a static image of a visual representation of a user interface (UI), wherein the static UI image comprises a visual representation of one or more UI image components of the UI. The system is further configured to segment the static UI image into one or more UI image segments, wherein each UI image segment is associated with a UI image component of the one or more UI image components, and construct an operational user interface user interface construction based on transforming interface image segments static images into actionable user interface components.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention generally relates to the field of user interfaceconstriction technology. In particular, the novel present inventionprovides a unique, technology-agnostic platform for user interfaceconstruction based on image segmentation, transformation of userinterface image segments, and construction of user interface objects.Embodiments of the inventions are configured for fundamentallytransforming a static representation of a user interface into functionaland actionable user interface components.

BACKGROUND

Increasingly prevalent computers, mobile phones, smart devices,appliances, and other devices, require a variety of user interfaces forfacilitating user interaction with applications, operating systems,physical device components such as sensors, cameras etc., communicationfeatures and the like of the devices. Typically, these interfacesinvolve a graphical user interface. However, in conventional systems,creating these user interfaces is typically only possible from afront-end perspective that is end-use technology specific (e.g.,specific to the operating system or application platform that theinterface is being created for) and requires a dedicated interfacecreation applications that are specific to the end-use technology. Thisconventional process, however, is heavily reliant on and specific to theend-use technology and the created user interfaces or intermediary stepsinvolved in the creation are not portable to a different end-usetechnology. Moreover, this conventional process requires technologyspecific skills, is time intensive and laborious. Therefore, a needexists for a novel user interface construction system that is technologyagnostic, that integrates back-end processing with the front-endinterface, and that is not resource and time intensive that addressesthe foregoing shortcomings of conventional system.

The previous discussion of the background to the invention is providedfor illustrative purposes only and is not an acknowledgement oradmission that any of the material referred to is or was part of thecommon general knowledge as at the priority date of the application.

BRIEF SUMMARY

The following presents a simplified summary of one or more embodimentsof the invention in order to provide a basic understanding of suchembodiments. This summary is not an extensive overview of allcontemplated embodiments, and is intended to neither identify key orcritical elements of all embodiments, nor delineate the scope of any orall embodiments. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of one ormore embodiments in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detaileddescription that is presented later.

Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods, andcomputer program products that address the foregoing deficiencies ofconventional systems, addresses the foregoing identified needs andprovides improvements to existing technology by providing an innovativesystem, method and computer program product for user interfaceconstruction based on image segmentation, transformation of userinterface image segments, and construction of user interface objects.Typically the system comprises: at least one memory device withcomputer-readable program code stored thereon; at least onecommunication device; at least one processing device operatively coupledto the first proctor module application and the second proctor moduleapplication, the at least one memory device and the at least onecommunication device. Executing the computer-readable code is configuredto cause the at least one processing device to: capture a static imageof a visual representation of an user interface (UI), wherein the staticUI image comprises a two-dimensional visual representation of one ormore UI image components of the UI; segment the static UI image into oneor more UI image segments, wherein each UI image segment is associatedwith a UI image component of the one or more UI image components;construct at a generative network, for a first UI image segment of theone or more UI image segments, an associated first UI component object;perform, at a discriminative network, via a discriminator, validation ofthe constructed first UI component object. Next, in response to thesuccessful validation of the constructed first UI component object, thesystem may then construct an operational user interface by embedding theconstructed first UI component object into the operational userinterface based on at least an associated (i) UI image componenthierarchy level and (ii) UI image component spatial location of thefirst UI image segment associated with the first UI component object,wherein constructing the operational user interface further comprises:determining an operating system framework associated with theoperational user interface; generating, at a UI encoder, firstfunctional source code for the first UI component object based on atleast the operating system framework; and transforming the first UIcomponent object into a first actionable UI component object by mappingthe first functional source code with the first UI component object.

In some embodiments, or in combination with any of the previousembodiments, the visual representation of the UI comprises a hand drawnimage and/or a wireframe associated with the UI.

In some embodiments, or in combination with any of the previousembodiments, the system is further configured to: generate, at thegenerative network, a first convolution associated with the constructedfirst UI component object; transmit the first convolution to adiscriminative network comprising at least the discriminator; wherein,performing validation of the constructed first UI component object atthe discriminator of the discriminative network further comprises:performing validation of the constructed first UI component object byanalyzing the first convolution, wherein validating the constructedfirst UI component object comprises determining an accuracy of theconstructed first UI component object based on analyzing the firstconvolution with respect to structural elements associated with thefirst UI image segment, wherein the structural elements comprise a UIimage component type, a UI image component spatial location, and a UIimage component hierarchy level; and transmitting, from thediscriminative network to the generative network, a signal indicatingthe successful or unsuccessful validation of the constructed first UIcomponent object.

In some embodiments, or in combination with any of the previousembodiments, the system is further configured to: in response to asuccessful validation of the constructed first UI component object bythe discriminator, perform an upsampling transformation of the first UIcomponent object, based on at least the associated UI image componenthierarchy level to render the UI component object compatible forembedding into a UI interface layer at the associated componenthierarchy level; and construct the operational user interface byembedding the transformed first UI component object into the operationaluser interface, wherein the transformed first UI component object iscompatible for embedding into the UI interface layer of the operationaluser interface at (i) the UI image component hierarchy level and (ii)the UI image component spatial location.

In some embodiments, or in combination with any of the previousembodiments, the system is further configured to: perform the upsamplingtransformation of the first UI component object in response to determinethat the constructed first UI component object is not compatible forembedding into the operational user interface at (i) the UI imagecomponent hierarchy level and/or (ii) the UI image component spatiallocation.

In some embodiments, or in combination with any of the previousembodiments, the system is further configured to: in response to anunsuccessful validation of the constructed first UI component object bythe discriminator, determine a residual of the constructed first UIcomponent object at the generative network; and reconstruct for thefirst UI image segment of the one or more UI image segments, a second UIcomponent object based on the residual.

In some embodiments, or in combination with any of the previousembodiments, generating the first functional source code for the firstUI component object further comprises generating the functional sourcecode based on at least (i) at least one action to be performed by thefirst UI component object, and (ii) the operating system framework,wherein mapping the first functional source code with the first UIcomponent object is structured to configure the first actionable UIcomponent object to perform the at least one action. Here, the system isfurther configured to transmit the operational user interface having thefirst actionable UI component to a user device.

In some embodiments, or in combination with any of the previousembodiments, the system is further configured to: reshape the one ormore UI image segments at the generative network to correct the one ormore UI image segments; and construct a fully connected UI layerassociated with the one or more UI image segments.

In some embodiments, or in combination with any of the previousembodiments, constructing, at the generative network, the first UIcomponent object for the first UI image segment further comprises:retrieving, for each of the one or more UI image segments, structuralelements comprising a UI image component type, a UI image componentspatial location, and a UI image component hierarchy level; extractingpredetermined critical features from the first UI image segment, andconstructing a functional UI component object that matches thestructural elements associated with the first UI image segment and theextracted predetermined critical features.

In some embodiments, or in combination with any of the previousembodiments, the system is further configured to: analyze the staticimage to identify the one or more UI image components in the static UIimage based on processing the static UI image, wherein identifying theone or more UI image components further comprises: determining one ormore dimensional boundaries associated with the one or more UI imagecomponents; wherein segmenting the static UI image further comprisessegmenting the static UI image into one or more UI image segments basedon at least the one or more dimensional boundaries.

In some embodiments, or in combination with any of the previousembodiments, the generative network further comprises an attentionalgenerative network comprising: a plurality of attentive componentbuilding applications, wherein each of the plurality of attentivecomponent building applications is associated with a UI image componenthierarchy level of a plurality of UI image component hierarchy levels ofthe static image, wherein each of the plurality of attentive componentbuilding applications is structured to construct one or more UIcomponent object of the associated UI image component hierarchy level; aplurality of UI component generation applications, wherein each of theplurality of UI component generation applications is structured totransform a UI component object constructed by an associated attentivecomponent building application of the plurality of attentive componentbuilding applications; and a plurality of convolution applications,wherein each of the plurality of convolution applications is structuredto perform a convolution transformation of a transformed UI componentobject from an associated UI component generation application of theplurality of UI component generation applications.

In some embodiments, or in combination with any of the previousembodiments, the system is further comprises one or more imagesegmentation applications structured to segment the static UI image intoone or more UI image segments, wherein the one or more imagesegmentation applications are associated with a Mask RegionalConvolutional Neural Network (Mask RCNN).

The features, functions, and advantages that have been discussed may beachieved independently in various embodiments of the present inventionor may be combined with yet other embodiments, further details of whichcan be seen with reference to the following description and drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Having thus described embodiments of the invention in general terms,reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

FIG. 1 depicts a user interface construction system environment 100, inaccordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 depicts a user interface technology platform module environment200, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 depicts an image segmentation and transformation environment 300,in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 depicts a illustrative representation 400 of a static userinterface image in accordance with one embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 5 depicts a high level process flow 500 for image segmentation anduser interface component transformation, in accordance with oneembodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 depicts a high level process flow 600 for user interfacecomponent transformation and validation, in accordance with oneembodiment of the present invention; and

FIG. 7 depicts a high level process flow 700 for actionable userinterface component and operational user interface construction, inaccordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described more fullyhereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which some,but not all, embodiments of the invention are shown. Indeed, theinvention may be embodied in many different forms and should not beconstrued as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, theseembodiments are provided so that this disclosure will satisfy applicablelegal requirements. Like numbers refer to elements throughout. Wherepossible, any terms expressed in the singular form herein are meant toalso include the plural form and vice versa, unless explicitly statedotherwise. Also, as used herein, the term “a” and/or “an” shall mean“one or more,” even though the phrase “one or more” is also used herein.

In some embodiments, an “entity” or “enterprise” as used herein may beany institution employing information technology resources andparticularly technology infrastructure configured for large scaleprocessing of electronic files, electronic technology event data andrecords, and performing/processing associated technology activities. Insome instances, the entity's technology systems comprise multipletechnology applications across multiple distributed technology platformsfor large scale processing of technology activity files and electronicrecords. As such, the entity may be any institution, group, association,financial institution, establishment, company, union, authority or thelike, employing information technology resources.

As described herein, a “user” is an individual associated with anentity. In some embodiments, a “user” may be an employee (e.g., anassociate, a project manager, an IT specialist, a manager, anadministrator, an internal operations analyst, or the like) of theentity or enterprises affiliated with the entity, capable of operatingthe systems described herein. In some embodiments, a “user” may be anyindividual, entity or system who has a relationship with the entity,such as a customer. In other embodiments, a user may be a systemperforming one or more tasks described herein.

In the instances where the entity is a financial institution, a user maybe an individual or entity with one or more relationships affiliationsor accounts with the entity (for example, a financial institution). Insome embodiments, the user may be an entity or financial institutionemployee (e.g., an underwriter, a project manager, an IT specialist, amanager, an administrator, an internal operations analyst, bank telleror the like) capable of operating the system described herein. In someembodiments, a user may be any individual or entity who has arelationship with a customer of the entity or financial institution. Forpurposes of this invention, the term “user” and “customer” may be usedinterchangeably. A “technology resource” or “account” may be therelationship that the user has with the entity. Examples of technologyresources include a deposit account, such as a transactional account(e.g. a banking account), a savings account, an investment account, amoney market account, a time deposit, a demand deposit, a pre-paidaccount, a credit account, a non-monetary user information that includesonly personal information associated with the user, or the like. Thetechnology resource is typically associated with and/or maintained by anentity.

As used herein, a “user interface” or “UI” may be an interface foruser-machine interaction. In some embodiments the user interfacecomprises a graphical user interface. Typically, a graphical userinterface (GUI) is a type of interface that allows users to interactwith electronic devices such as graphical icons and visual indicatorssuch as secondary notation, as opposed to using only text via thecommand line. That said, the graphical user interfaces are typicallyconfigured for audio, visual and/or textual communication. In someembodiments, the graphical user interface may include both graphicalelements and text elements. The graphical user interface is configuredto be presented on one or more display devices associated with userdevices, entity systems, processing systems and the like. In someembodiments the user interface comprises one or more of an adaptive userinterface, a graphical user interface, a kinetic user interface, atangible user interface, and/or the like, in part or in its entirety.

As discussed previously, in conventional systems, creating these userinterfaces is typically only possible from a front-end perspective thatis end-use technology specific (e.g., specific to the operating systemor application platform that the interface is being created for) andrequires a dedicated interface creation applications that are specificto the end-use technology. This conventional process, however, isheavily reliant on and specific to the end-use technology and thecreated user interfaces or intermediary steps involved in the creationare not portable to a different end-use technology. Moreover, thisconventional process requires technology specific skills, is timeintensive and laborious. The present invention alleviates these drawbackand provides a novel system for constructing technology-agnostic userinterfaces that are easily portable across various operating systemframeworks.

Moreover, with respect to image processing, conventional systems areconfigured for at best character recognition from hand-drawn images.Conventional systems however, are not capable of distinguishing UI imagecomponents from mere characters in a hand-drawn images. Moreover,conventional systems are incapable of identifying UI image componentobjects in hand drawn images/wireframes, much less identifyingboundaries, hierarchies and the like associated with UI imagecomponents, and transforming them into compatible actionable UIcomponent objects embedded in a user interface. By not being able toaccurately determine boundaries of UI image components, conventionalsystems are unable to perform accurate image segmentation imperative forthe steps of user interface construction. Embodiments of the presentinvention alleviate the deficiencies of existing systems and achieveother advantages by providing apparatuses (e.g., a system, computerprogram product and/or other devices) and methods for user interfaceconstruction based on based on image segmentation, transforminginterface image segments static images into actionable user interfacecomponents, and construction of user interface objects, as describedwith respect to FIGS. 1-7 herein.

FIG. 1 illustrates a user interface construction system environment 100,in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention. Asillustrated in FIG. 1, a UI processing system 108 is in operativecommunication with and operatively coupled to, via a network 10, a userdevice 104, an entity server 106, a technology system 105, and an imagecapture device 180. In this way, the UI processing system 108 can sendinformation to and receive information from the user device 104, theentity server 106, the technology system 105 and the image capturedevice 180. FIG. 1 illustrates only one example of an embodiment of thesystem environment 100, and it will be appreciated that in otherembodiments one or more of the systems, devices, or servers may becombined into a single system, device, or server, or be made up ofmultiple systems, devices, or servers. In this way, a UI technologyplatform module 200 of the UI processing system 108, is configured forimage segmentation, transformation of user interface image segments, andconstruction of user interface objects, thereby fundamentallytransforming a static representation of a user interface into functionaland actionable user interface components, and also connecting back-endconstruction of user interfaces with front end components, which wouldnot be possible in the absence of the present invention.

The network 101 may be a system specific distributive network receivingand distributing specific network feeds and identifying specific networkassociated triggers. The network 101 may also be a global area network(GAN), such as the Internet, a wide area network (WAN), a local areanetwork (LAN), or any other type of network or combination of networks.The network 101 may provide for wireline, wireless, or a combinationwireline and wireless communication between devices on the network 101.

In some embodiments, the user 102 may be one or more individuals orentities that may either provide static UI images (e.g., via the imagecapture device 180), request construction of an operational UI based ontransforming static UI images, and/or receive/utilize the constructedoperation UI. As such, in some embodiments, the user 102 may beassociated with the entity and/or a financial institution that maydesire the constructed operational UI.

FIG. 1 also illustrates a user system 104. The user device 104 may be,for example, a desktop personal computer, a mobile system, such as acellular phone, smart phone, personal data assistant (PDA), laptop, aserver system, another computing system and/or the like. The user device104 generally comprises a communication device 112, a processing device114, and a memory device 116. The user device 104 is typically acomputing system that is configured to enable user and deviceauthentication for access to technology event data, request constructionof UIs, receive the constructed UIs, etc. The processing device 114 isoperatively coupled to the communication device 112 and the memorydevice 116. The processing device 114 uses the communication device 112to communicate with the network 101 and other devices on the network101, such as, but not limited to, the entity server 106, the UIprocessing system 108 and the technology system 105. As such, thecommunication device 112 generally comprises a modem, server, or otherdevice for communicating with other devices on the network 101.

The user device 104 comprises computer-readable instructions 110 anddata storage 118 stored in the memory device 116, which in oneembodiment includes the computer-readable instructions 110 of a userapplication 122. In some embodiments, the UI processing system 108and/or the entity system 106 are configured to cause the processingdevice 114 to execute the computer readable instructions 110, therebycausing the user device 104 to perform one or more functions describedherein, for example, via the user application 122 and the associateduser interface of the user application 122. In some embodiments, theassociated user interface of the user application 122 may be differentuser interface than the UI constructed by the UI processing system 108(e.g., the associated user interface of the user application 122 may beconfigured to request the construction of the user interface, configuredto capture and/or provide a static UI image associated with the UIdesired to be constructed, configured for receiving user authenticationcredentials etc.). In some embodiments, the associated user interface ofthe user application 122 may be the same as or similar to the UIconstructed by the UI processing system 108 (e.g., the constructed UI(partially or fully complete) and/or associated information may bepresented to the user via the associated user interface of the userapplication 122).

FIG. 1 also illustrates an image capture device 180. In someembodiments, the image capture device 180 is typically configured tocapture a 2-D image of a physical, tangible object, thereby convertingit into an electronic file/document. The image capture device 180 maybe/or may comprise, for example, a scanner, a camera, a light sensor, amagnetic reader, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the image capturedevice 180 is a part of, or is integral with the UI processing system108. In some embodiments, the image capture device 180 is a part of, oris integral with the entity server 106. In some embodiments, the imagecapture device 180 is a part of, or is integral with the user device104. In some embodiments, the image capture device 180 is configured toconstruct static UI image (e.g., a static 2-D UI image) comprisinghand-drawn images, wireframes, and/or the like associated with a UIdesired to be constructed (e.g., a web page, a mobile/smartphoneapplication interface, etc.). Typically, the hand-drawn images,wireframes, and/or the like associated with a UI desired to beconstructed are hand-drawn or otherwise inscribed/provided on a paper oranother physical/tangible object (e.g., as illustrated by FIG. 4), whichare captured/scanned by the image capture device 180, and transformed toconstruct the static UI image (e.g., in 2-D) as an electronicfile/document or image file (e.g., in JPEG, Exif, JFIF, GIF, BMP, TIFF,or another suitable format), e.g., with a predetermined aspect ratioand/or resolution.

As further illustrated in FIG. 1, the UI processing system 108 generallycomprises a communication device 146, a processing device 148, and amemory device 150. As used herein, the term “processing device”generally includes circuitry used for implementing the communicationand/or logic functions of the particular system. For example, aprocessing device may include a digital signal processor device, amicroprocessor device, and various analog-to-digital converters,digital-to-analog converters, and other support circuits and/orcombinations of the foregoing. Control and signal processing functionsof the system are allocated between these processing devices accordingto their respective capabilities. The processing device, such as theprocessing device 148, typically includes functionality to operate oneor more software programs, an image segmentation module 210 (havingimage segmentation application(s) 212, etc.), an UI componenttransformation module 230 (having UI component generation application(s)232, discriminator(s) 244, etc.), and/or an actionable UI componentconstruction module 250 (having an UI Encoder 254, an image technologystack mapping application 256, etc.) of the UI technology platformmodule 200 (illustrated in FIG. 2), based on computer-readableinstructions thereof, which may be stored in a memory device, forexample, executing computer readable instructions 154 orcomputer-readable program code 154 stored in memory device 150 toperform one or more functions associated with a UI technology platformmodule 200

The processing device 148 is operatively coupled to the communicationdevice 146 and the memory device 150. The processing device 148 uses thecommunication device 146 to communicate with the network 101 and otherdevices on the network 101, such as, but not limited to the entityserver 106, the technology system 105, the image capture device 180 andthe user system 104. As such, the communication device 146 generallycomprises a modem, server, or other device for communicating with otherdevices on the network 101.

As further illustrated in FIG. 1, the UI processing system 108 comprisesthe computer-readable instructions 154 stored in the memory device 150,which in one embodiment includes the computer-readable instructions 154of the UI technology platform module 200. In some embodiments, thecomputer readable instructions 154 comprise executable instructionsassociated with the image segmentation module 210 (having imagesegmentation application(s) 212, etc.), the UI component transformationmodule 230 (having UI component generation application(s) 232,discriminator(s) 244, etc.), and/or the actionable UI componentconstruction module 250 (having the UI Encoder 254, the image technologystack mapping application 256, etc.) associated with the UI technologyplatform module 200, wherein these instructions, when executed, aretypically configured to cause the applications or modules toperform/execute one or more steps described herein. In some embodiments,the memory device 150 includes data storage 152 for storing data relatedto the system environment, but not limited to data created and/or usedby the UI technology platform module 200 and its components/modules. TheUI technology platform module 200 is further configured to perform orcause other systems and devices to perform the various steps inprocessing electronic records, as will be described in detail later on.

As such, the processing device 148 is configured to perform some or allof the image segmentation, transformation, and analysis and userinterface construction steps described throughout this disclosure, forexample, by executing the computer readable instructions 154. In thisregard, the processing device 148 may perform one or more stepssingularly and/or transmit control instructions that are configured tothe image segmentation module 210 (having image segmentationapplication(s) 212, etc.), the UI component transformation module 230(having UI component generation application(s) 232, discriminator(s)244, etc.), and/or the actionable UI component construction module 250(having the UI Encoder 254, the image technology stack mappingapplication 256, etc.) associated with the UI technology platform module200, entity server 106, user device 104, and technology system 105and/or other systems and applications, to perform one or more stepsdescribed throughout this disclosure. Although various data processingsteps may be described as being performed by the UI technology platformmodule 200 and/or its components/applications and the like in someinstances herein, it is understood that the processing device 148 isconfigured to establish operative communication channels with and/orbetween these modules and applications, and transmit controlinstructions to them, via the established channels, to cause thesemodule and applications to perform these steps.

Embodiments of the UI processing system 108 may include multiplesystems, servers, computers or the like maintained by one or manyentities. FIG. 1 merely illustrates one of those systems 108 that,typically, interacts with many other similar systems to form theinformation network. In one embodiment of the invention, the UIprocessing system 108 is operated by the entity associated with theentity server 106, while in another embodiment it is operated by asecond entity that is a different or separate entity from the entityserver 106. In some embodiments, the entity server 106 may be part ofthe UI processing system 108. Similarly, in some embodiments, the UIprocessing system 108 is part of the entity server 106. In otherembodiments, the entity server 106 is distinct from the UI processingsystem 108.

In one embodiment of the UI processing system 108, the memory device 150stores, but is not limited to, the UI technology platform module 200comprising the image segmentation module 210 (having image segmentationapplication(s) 212, etc.), the UI component transformation module 230(having UI component generation application(s) 232, discriminator(s)244, etc.), and/or the actionable UI component construction module 250(having the UI Encoder 254, the image technology stack mappingapplication 256, etc.), as will be described later on with respect toFIG. 2. In one embodiment of the invention, the UI technology platformmodule 200 may associated with computer-executable program code thatinstructs the processing device 148 to operate the network communicationdevice 146 to perform certain communication functions involving thetechnology system 105, the user device 104 and/or the entity server 106,as described herein. In one embodiment, the computer-executable programcode of an application associated with the UI technology platform module200 may also instruct the processing device 148 to perform certainlogic, data processing, and data storing functions of the application.

The processing device 148 is configured to use the communication device146 to receive data, such as electronic data files (e.g., static UIimages comprising hand-drawn images, wireframes, etc.), receive requestsfor constructing operational UIs, transmit and/or cause display ofconstructed operational UIs and the like. In the embodiment illustratedin FIG. 1 and described throughout much of this specification, the UItechnology platform module 200 may perform one or more of the functionsdescribed herein, by the processing device 148 executing computerreadable instructions 154 and/or executing computer readableinstructions associated with one or moreapplication(s)/devices/components of the UI technology platform module200.

As illustrated in FIG. 1, the entity server 106 is connected to the UIprocessing system 108 and may be associated with a UI componentdatabase, UI technology code database, may be associated with UI datasources, may be associated with a financial institution network, etc. Inthis way, while only one entity server 106 is illustrated in FIG. 1, itis understood that multiple network systems may make up the systemenvironment 100 and be connected to the network 101. The entity server106 generally comprises a communication device 136, a processing device138, and a memory device 140. The entity server 106 comprisescomputer-readable instructions 142 stored in the memory device 140,which in one embodiment includes the computer-readable instructions 142of an institution application 144. The entity server 106 may communicatewith the UI processing system 108. The UI processing system 108 maycommunicate with the entity server 106 via a secure connection generatedfor secure encrypted communications between the two systems forcommunicating data for processing across various applications.

As further illustrated in FIG. 1, in some embodiments, the technologyevent processing system environment 100 further comprises a technologysystem 105, in operative communication with the UI processing system108, the entity server 106, and/or the user device 104. Typically, thetechnology system 105 comprises a communication device, a processingdevice and memory device with computer readable instructions. In someinstances, the technology system 105 comprises a firstdatabase/repository comprising UI component objects, and/or a seconddatabase/repository comprising functional source code associated with UIcomponent objects. These applications/databases may be operated by theprocessor executing the computer readable instructions associated withthe technology system 105, as described previously. In some instances,the technology system 105 is owned, operated or otherwise associatedwith third party entities, while in other instances, the technologysystem 105 is operated by the entity associated with the systems 108and/or 106. Although a single external technology system 105 isillustrated, it should be understood that, the technology system 105 mayrepresent multiple technology servers operating in sequentially or intandem to perform one or more data processing operations.

It is understood that the servers, systems, and devices described hereinillustrate one embodiment of the invention. It is further understoodthat one or more of the servers, systems, and devices can be combined inother embodiments and still function in the same or similar way as theembodiments described herein.

FIG. 2 illustrates the UI technology platform module environment 200 foruser interface construction based on image segmentation, transformationof user interface image segments, and construction of user interfaceobjects. The technology platform module is also configured forfundamentally transforming a static representation of a user interfaceinto functional and actionable user interface components. In someembodiments, computer readable instructions 154, when executed by theprocessing device 148 of the UI processing system 108 (hereinafterreferred to as “the system”), are typically configured to cause themodules, applications, and other components of the technology platformmodule environment 200 to perform one or more functions as describedherein. The UI technology platform module 200 typically comprises animage segmentation module 210, an UI component transformation module 230and an actionable UI component construction module 250, in operativecommunication with each other.

In some embodiments, the term “module” as used herein may refer to afunctional assembly (e.g., packaged functional assembly) of one or moreassociated electronic components and/or one or more associatedtechnology applications, programs, and/or codes. Moreover, in someinstances, a “module” together with the constituent electroniccomponents and/or associated technology applications/programs/codes maybe independently operable and/or may form at least a part of the systemarchitecture. In some embodiments, the term “module” as used herein mayrefer to at least a section of a one or more associated technologyapplications, programs, and/or codes and/or one or more associatedelectronic components.

The UI technology platform module 200 typically comprises the imagesegmentation module 210 comprising image segmentation application(s) 212as also described in detail below, e.g., with respect to FIGS. 3 and 5.In some embodiments, the image segmentation application(s) 212 areassociated with or form a Mask Regional Convolutional Neural Network(Mask RCNN). Typically, the image capture device 180 captures visualrepresentations of hand-drawn images, wireframes, and/or the likeassociated with a UI desired to be constructed and constructs a staticUI image 205 (e.g., based on instructions from the system 108), asdiscussed with respect to FIG. 1. The static UI image 205 is received atthe UI technology platform module 200. The static UI image 205 typicallycomprises a 2D visual representation of one or more UI image componentsof the UI desired to be constructed (e.g., a web page, amobile/smartphone application interface, etc.). The image segmentationapplication(s) 212 typically receive the static UI image 205, andperform one or more image processing steps such as identifying the oneor more UI image components in the static UI image, segmenting thestatic UI image into one or more UI image segments, such that UI imagesegment is associated with a UI image component of the one or more UIimage components, etc. (e.g., as described with respect to blocks510-525 of FIG. 5). The image segmentation application(s) 212 may alsodetermine UI image structural elements (214, 216) comprising a UI imagecomponent type, a UI image component spatial location, a UI imagecomponent hierarchy level, etc., for each of the one or more UI imagesegments (e.g., as described with respect to blocks 530-540 of FIG. 5).The image segmentation application(s) 212 may then input the UI imagestructural elements 214 (e.g., a UI image component type, and/or a UIimage component spatial location) and/or UI image segments to an UIImage segment pipeline 220 a that is configured to transmit the UI imagestructural elements 214 to UI component generation application(s) 232 ofthe UI component transformation module 230 (e.g., as described withrespect to block 545 of FIG. 5). The image segmentation application(s)212 may then input the UI image structural elements 216 (e.g., a UIimage component hierarchy level, and/or a UI image component spatiallocation) and/or UI image segments to an UI Image segment pipeline 220 bthat is configured to transmit the UI image structural elements 216 toUI component generation application(s) 232 and/or UI componentdiscriminators 240 of the UI component transformation module 230 (e.g.,as described with respect to block 550 of FIG. 5).

The UI component transformation module 230 comprises UI componentgeneration application(s) 232, UI component discriminator(s) 240 (alsoreferred to as discriminator application(s) 240, or UI componentdiscriminator assembly 240), etc. In some embodiments, the UI componentgeneration application(s) 232 are associated with or form an AttentionalGenerative Network (AGN) and/or a Generative Adversarial Network (GANs)(e.g., an Attention Generative Adversarial Network (Attn GAN) and/or aSelf-Attention Generative Adversarial Network). As such, the UIcomponent transformation module 230 is implemented, in some embodimentsherein, as a system of two neural networks contesting with each other ina zero-sum game framework. As illustrated in FIG. 2, in someembodiments, (i) the UI component generation application(s) 232constitute, form and/or are associated with a first network orgenerative network (e.g., a first neural network or generative neuralnetwork) of the UI component transformation module 230 network, whichgenerates UI component objects. While, (ii) the UI componentdiscriminator(s) 240 constitute, form and/or are associated with asecond network or discriminative network (e.g., a second neural networkor discriminative neural network) of the UI component transformationmodule 230 network, which validates, evaluates, processes, tests, and/orotherwise assesses the UI component objects generated by the firstnetwork or generative network. As used herein, “neural networks” maycomprise an interconnected group of artificial neurons or nodes thatexhibit complex global behavior, in an adaptive manner such that theneural network may change its structure based on external or internalinformation that flows through the network, in some embodiments.

The UI component generation application(s) 232 comprise one or moreattentive component building applications A₁, A₂, . . . and/or A_(N)(234 a, 234 b, . . . and/or 234 n), each being associated withconstructing UI component objects for a particular component hierarchylevel of the UI image segments based on received UI image structuralelements 214 (e.g., a UI image component type) from the UI Image segmentPipeline 220 a. For instance, for a static UI image 205 having 5hierarchy levels, N may be equal to 5, with each attentive componentbuilding application A₁-A₅ being associated with a particular hierarchylevel. Typically, the hierarchy levels of attentive component buildingapplications A₁, A₂, . . . and/or A_(N) are in the ascending order, withA₁ being associated with the first/lowest level of hierarchy and theA_(N) being associated with the last/highest level of hierarchy. In someembodiments, the UI component generation application(s) 232 isstructured for transforming/mapping from latent data or latentspace/variables to a desired data construction/distribution. Moreover,the UI component generation application(s) 232 are typically structuredto be dynamically self-learning, e.g., based on thesignals/triggers/commands received from the second network ordiscriminative network, e.g., from the UI component discriminator(s) 240in particular.

The UI component generation application(s) 232 comprises a basetransformation application F₀ 2360, typically associated with azero/base hierarchy level, e.g., webpage/page background level fortransforming received UI image segments and processing structuralelements 216 (e.g., a UI image component hierarchy level, and/or a UIimage component spatial location) from the UI Image segment Pipeline 220b. The base transformation application F₀ 2360 comprises a firsttransformation program 2350 (also referred to as a fully connected layerconstruction and reshape program 2350) that is configured to construct afully connected UI layer out of the one or more UI image segmentsreceived from the image segmentation application(s) 212, via thepipeline 220 b and/or also reshape the one or more UI image segments.The base transformation application F₀ 2360 further comprises one ormore second transformation programs 2370 (also referred to as an imagestructure upsampling program 2370) that are configured to successivelymodify/transform the structure of the fully connected layer receivedfrom the first transformation program 2350, e.g., byaltering/modifying/transforming the resolution, aspect ratio, etc. ofthe image segments to a predetermined optimum required for furtherprocessing.

The UI component generation application(s) 232 further comprise one ormore component transformation applications F₁, F₂, . . . and/or F_(N)(236 a, 236 b, . . . and/or 236 n), each being associated withtransforming UI component objects constructed by an associated attentivecomponent building application A₁, A₂, . . . and/or A_(N) (234 a, 234 b,. . . and/or 234 n) for a particular component hierarchy level of the UIimage segments. Each of the one or more component transformationapplications F₁, F₂, . . . and/or F_(N) (236 a, 236 b, . . . and/or 236n) may further comprise a third transformation program (233 a, 233 b, .. . and/or 233 n) configured for receiving and/or performing preliminaryprocessing/analysis of constructed UI component objects from theassociated attentive component building applications A₁, A₂, . . .and/or A_(N) (234 a, 234 b, . . . and/or 234 n). Each of the one or morecomponent transformation applications F₁, F₂, . . . and/or F_(N) (236 a,236 b, . . . and/or 236 n) may further comprise one or more fourthtransformation programs (238 a, 238 b, . . . and/or 238 n) configuredfor successively determining a residual of the constructed UI componentobject by the associated attentive component building applications A₁,A₂, . . . and/or A_(N) (234 a, 234 b, . . . and/or 234 n). Each of theone or more component transformation applications F₁, F₂, . . . and/orF_(N) (236 a, 236 b, . . . and/or 236 n) may further comprise a fifthtransformation program or image structure upsampling program (237 a, 237b, . . . and/or 237 n), similar to the one or more second transformationprograms 2370, that is configured to modify/transform the structure ofthe constructed UI component object by the associated attentivecomponent building applications A₁, A₂, . . . and/or A_(N) (234 a, 234b, . . . and/or 234 n), e.g., by altering/modifying/transforming theresolution, aspect ratio, etc. of the UI component object.

The UI component generation application(s) 232 further comprise a baseconvolution application G₀ 2390, typically associated with performing aconvolution transformation of a transformed zero/base hierarchy levelwebpage from an associated base transformation application F₀ 2340 ofthe zero/base hierarchy level. The UI component generationapplication(s) 232 further comprise one or more convolution applicationsG₁, G₂, . . . and/or G_(N) (239 a, 239 b, . . . and/or 239 n) eachassociated with performing convolution transformations of transformed UIcomponent objects from an associated component transformationapplication F₁, F₂, . . . and/or F_(N) (236 a, 236 b, . . . and/or 236n), thereby generating a convolution associated with the UI componentobject.

The UI component transformation module 230 also comprises thediscriminator(s) 240 or discriminator modules 240 (240 a, 240 b, . . . ,and/or 240 n+1), etc., e.g., in the second network or discriminativenetwork. Each discriminator module (240 a, 240 b, . . . , and/or 240n+1) may comprise a transformation application (242 a, 242 b . . . ,and/or 252(242 n+1)) configured to modify a resolution of an UIcomponent object received, based on at least the associated UI imagecomponent hierarchy level, received from the associated UI componentgeneration application(s) 232. Each discriminator module (240 a, 240 b,. . . , and/or 240 n+1) may comprise a discriminator application (244 a,244 b . . . , and/or 244 n+1) configured to validate the constructedfirst UI component object, based on at least the received UI imagestructural elements 216 (e.g., UI image component hierarchy level,and/or UI image component spatial location) from the UI Image segmentPipeline 220 b. In some embodiments, the discriminator(s) 240 of thesecond network or discriminative network are structured to discriminatebetween instances from the true data structures/distribution associatedwith the UI image segments (e.g., retrieved from the UI Image segmentPipeline 220 b) and UI component objects produced by the associated UIcomponent generation application(s) 232 of the first network orgenerative network, thereby dynamically training the first network orgenerative network in real-time (i.e., aiding in the dynamicself-learning of the first/generative network). In some embodiments, thesystem 108 performs initial training of the discriminator(s) 240 of thesecond/discriminative network, e.g., by transmitting UI segment samplesand causing the discriminator(s) 240 to validate the UI segment samplesand/or associated UI component objects, until the discriminator(s) 240of the second/discriminative network attain a predetermine level ofaccuracy. In some embodiments, the UI component generationapplication(s) 232 of the first/generative network are seeded with arandomized UI segment input that is sampled from a predefined latentdata/space (e.g. a multivariate normal distribution). Subsequently, thesystem 108 causes the discriminator(s) 240 to analyze/process/evaluatethe samples synthesized by the UI component generation application(s)232 of the first/generative network. In some embodiments,backpropagation may also applied in both networks so that the UIcomponent generation application(s) 232 construct better UI componentobjects, while the discriminator(s) 240 become more skilled atvalidating them with higher accuracy. In some embodiments, one or moreof the UI component generation application(s) 232 are associated with adeconvolutional neural network, while one or more of thediscriminator(s) 240 are associated with a convolutional neural network.

The UI component generation application(s) 232 are configured toconstruct an operational user interface by sequentially embedding theconstructed UI component objects into the operational user interface, inan ascending hierarchy as they are constructed, based on at least theassociated (i) UI image component hierarchy level and (ii) UI imagecomponent spatial location, and (iii) after successful validation by thediscriminators 240.

FIG. 2 further illustrates an actionable UI component constructionmodule 250 on operative communication with the UI componenttransformation module 230. The transformation application 252 isconfigured for transform the operational user interface based onpredetermined visual parameters. The UI component construction module250 comprises a UI encoder 254 configured to determine an operatingsystem framework associated with the operational user interface, andgenerate functional source code for each UI component object of theoperational user interface based on at least the operating systemframework. The UI component construction module 250 further comprise aimage technology stack mapping application 256 configured to map thefunctional source code with an associated UI component object, for eachUI component object of the operational user interface, therebyconstructing actionable UI component objects in the operational userinterface 258. The actionable UI component construction module 250 maythen transmit and/or cause display of the operational user interface 258having the one or more actionable UI component objects.

FIG. 3 illustrates an image segmentation and transformation environment300, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. A partof or the entirety of the image segmentation and transformationenvironment 300 may be comprised in the image segmentation module 210.As discussed previously, the static UI image 205 is received at theimage segmentation module 210. In some embodiments, the imagesegmentation application(s) 212 comprises a convolutional neural networkapplication (CNN) 212 a, and a region proposal network (RPN) application212 b, together forming a regional convolutional neural network (RCNN).The image segmentation application(s) 212, i.e., the RCNN, is configuredto construct a feature map comprising the UI image structural elements(214, 216). The image segmentation and transformation environment 300may further comprise a Region of Interest (RoI) Align application 218configured for performing a bilinear interpolation on the feature map,and ensures proper alignment, and thereby constructs a fixed sizefeature map that is transmitted via the pipelines 220 (220 a, 220 b). Asfurther illustrated by FIG. 3, the image segmentation and transformationenvironment 300 further constructs fully connected layers 222 having abox regression 224 and a classification 226. As further illustrated byFIG. 3, the image segmentation and transformation environment 300further comprises a mask branch 228.

As discussed, in some embodiments, the image segmentation application(s)212 comprises the convolutional neural network application (CNN) 212 a,and the region proposal network (RPN) application 212 b, togetherforming a regional convolutional neural network (RCNN). In someinstances, the convolutional neural network application (CNN) 212 acomprises an input and an output layer, as well as multiple hiddenlayers. These hidden layers of the CNN application 212 a may comprise ofconvolutional layers, pooling layers, fully connected layers andnormalization layers, such that the CNN application 212 a is structuredto apply a convolution operation to the input static UI image 205,passing the result to the next layer. The early layers are configured todetect low level features (edges and corners), and later layerssuccessively detect higher level features (car, person, sky). In someembodiments, for example, the CNN application 212 a comprises ResNet50or ResNet101 that serves as a feature extractor. In some instances, forexample, the static UI image 205 and/or its UI components aretransformed from 1024×1024px×3 (RGB) to a feature map (214, 216) ofshape 32×32×2048.

The region proposal network (RPN) application 212 b is structured fordetermining whether a particular UI image component (e.g., UI component412 of FIG. 4) of the one or more UI image components in the static UIimage 205 is in the background or foreground, refile the UI imagecomponent, etc. The RPN application 212 b may comprise one or moreregional proposals that may be analyzed by a classifier and a regressorto determine occurrence of UI image components in the static UI image205. As used herein, the regions of the static UI image 205 that the RPNapplication 212 b scans over are referred to as anchors. The RPNapplication 212 b may determine/configure/set one or more anchors (e.g.,9 anchors) in the static UI image 205 at a position of an image withdifferent sizes and shapes, thereby improving detection of regions. Asan example, in some instances, there are about 200K anchors of differentsizes and aspect ratios, and are configured by the RPN application 212 bsuch that they overlap to cover as much of the static UI image 205 aspossible. In some embodiments, the RPN application 212 b furtherperforms Bounding Box Refinement. For instance, the RPN application 212b may determine that a foreground anchor (also called positive anchor)is not be centered perfectly over the UI object/component. In response,the RPN application 212 b may further estimates a delta (% change in x,y, width, height) to refine the anchor box to fit the UIobject/component correctly.

In some embodiments, the RPN application 212 b provides improvedscanning and image processing in much quicker or nearly instantaneousrate, because, the RPN application 212 b does not scan over the staticUI image 205 directly. Instead, the RPN application 212 b scans over thebackbone feature map (comprising the UI image structural elements (214,216)) that is constructed in conjunction with or by the CNN application212 a. This allows the RPN application 212 b to reuse the extractedfeatures efficiently and avoid duplicate calculations entirely. In someembodiments, for example, the RPN application 212 b may run in about 10micro seconds. In this way the UI image components are identified,detected and/or processed by the CNN application 212 a together with theRPN application 212 b, which then construct the feature map comprisingthe UI image structural elements (214, 216), in some embodiments.

The Region of Interest (RoI) Align layer/application 218 and the MaskBranch application 228 together with the RCNN architecture above, formthe Mask RCNN architecture. Next, the RoI Align application 218 and themask branch application 228 perform the image segmentation process toconstruct one or more UI image segments performed by the, as describedbelow, via the Mask RCNN architecture. As illustrated in FIG. 3, in someembodiments, the Mask RCNN architecture comprises a branch 310 forpredicting an object mask in parallel, with the existing branch 320 forbounding box recognition for performing the image segmentation.

The image segmentation and transformation environment 300 may furthercomprise the RoI Align layer/application 218 configured for performing abilinear interpolation on the feature map, and ensures proper alignment,and thereby constructs the fixed size feature map that is transmittedvia the pipelines 220 (220 a, 220 b). The RoI Align layer/application218 is further configured to (i) determine a specific class of each UIobject/component (e.g., UI image component type, hierarchy level, etc.)in the RoI and (ii) perform further Bounding Box Refinement similar tothat performed by the RPN application 212 b. Furthermore, in someembodiments, the Mask Branch application 228 is a convolutional networkthat takes the positive regions selected by the RoI Alignlayer/application 218 and generates masks for each of them. In someembodiments, the masks are of soft mask type, represented by floatnumbers, so they hold more details than binary masks. In comparison withthe UI image component detection by the RCNN architecture above, theimage segmentation process typically requires a higher accuracy ofboundary detection. Accordingly, in the image segmentation process, thesystem typically classifies each pixel accurately. This provides animprovement to the image processing technology by preventingmisalignment between the RoI Allign layer and the extracted features(214, 216). Moreover because the RoI align layer/application 218 uses abilinear interpolation on feature map and avoids quantization,unavoidable shifts between generated mask and original instanceinevitably caused by quantization are completely eliminated.

As further illustrated by FIG. 3, the image segmentation andtransformation environment 300 further constructs fully connected layers222 having the box regression 224 (e.g., box coordinates, UI componentspatial location, etc.) and the classification 226 (e.g., class scores,class type, UI image component type, hierarchy level, etc.).

FIG. 4 illustrates an illustrative representation 400 of a static userinterface image 205, in accordance with one embodiment of the presentinvention. As discussed, the image capture device 180 is configured toconstruct static UI image 205 from visual representation of the desiredUI to be constructed (e.g., a web page, a mobile/smartphone applicationinterface, etc.). FIG. 4 illustrates a non-limiting example of atangible/physical hand drawn sketch/visual representation 410 of thedesired UI to be constructed that is hand drawn on a paper by a user. Asillustrated, the hand drawn sketch/visual representation 410 of thedesired UI to be constructed comprises 2D visual representation of oneor more UI image components 411, 412, 413, 415, 422, 432, 433, 442, 443,452, 462, 471, 472, 475, 478, and/or 482, etc., each being associatedwith a particular hierarchy level (indicated in FIG. 4 as “HL”, e.g.,base hierarchy level HL0, first hierarchy level HL1, second hierarchylevel HL2, third hierarchy level HL3, . . . N^(th) hierarchy level HLn(not illustrated) in an ascending order of hierarchy). The one or moreUI image components may comprise one or more of a window/container type(e.g., browser window 405, child window (411, 475), pop-up window 472,dialog box, frame, canvas, cover flow, modal window, accordion, etc.)image component, a menu type (e.g., menu bar, context menu, pie menu,drop down list 412 having drop down items 413, combo box (462, 472)etc.), icon type (e.g., an icon representing a particular command like asearch icon 453 superimposed over a search box (452, 482), scroll icon415, select icon, open icon, etc.), control type (e.g., widgets,buttons, navigation controls, tabs, links, scrollbars, sliders,spinners, toolbars, ribbons, etc.), input type (e.g., radio button,check box, cycle button, text box (422, 478), etc.), output type (e.g.,text boxes (432, 442), labels (433, 443), tooltips, balloons, statusbars, progress bars, infobars, visual content boxes, etc.), etc., and/ora suitable combination thereof.

Each UI image component typically comprises or is associated with acomponent boundary, either provided physically on the hand drawnsketch/visual representation 410 or not physically present orperceptible on the hand drawn sketch/visual representation 410. Forinstance, the UI image component 412 comprises a component boundary 412b and the UI image component 413 comprises a component boundary 413 b,which may then be identified and analyzed by the image segmentationapplication(s) 212 during processing (e.g., at block 520 of FIG. 5).Although, these component boundaries (412 b, 413 b) are illustrated asvisible drawings (e.g., lines or boxes) for illustrative purposes, insome instances, at least a portion or the entirety of componentboundaries are not physically present or perceptible on the hand drawnsketch/visual representation 410 and are constructed/assigned by theimage segmentation application(s) 212 during processing (e.g., at block520 of FIG. 5).

It is noted that the UI component numbers and the hierarchy level HL areindicated in FIG. 4 for illustrative purposes and ease of descriptionand are not typically present on the hand drawn sketch/visualrepresentation 410. The presence, nature, type, spatial locationcoordinates and hierarchy level of the UI image components aredetermined by the system as described herein. For instance, the systemmay determine that the browser window or page 405 comprises a basehierarchy level HL0, that the window 411 present in the window/page 405comprises a first hierarchy level HL1, and that the dropdown listcomponent 412 having the scroll button 415 present in the window 411comprises the second hierarchy level HL2, while the drop down items 413comprise a third hierarchy level HL3. The system further determinesspatial location coordinates of each of the UI image components, eitherbased on absolute coordinates (e.g., using Cartesian/polar/cylindricalcoordinates after setting an origin/reference (0,0) at are suitablepoint on the browser window or page 405 comprising the base hierarchylevel HL0), based on relative coordinates indicating relative positionsof each of the UI image components (e.g., relative positions of adjacentUI image components, relative positions of superimposed/overlapping UIimage components, etc.), based on coordinates of thedetermined/constructed component boundaries, and/or like.

FIG. 5, illustrates a high level process flow 500 for image segmentationand user interface component transformation, typically performed by theimage segmentation module 210, in accordance with one embodiment of thepresent invention. Specifically, at block 505, the system is configuredto capture a static image of a visual representation of an userinterface (UI), wherein the static UI Image comprises a 2D visualrepresentation of one or more UI image components of the UI (e.g., a webpage), as discussed previously. In some embodiments, the image capturedevice 180 is typically configured to capture a 2-D image of a physical,tangible object, thereby converting it into an electronic file/document.The image capture device 180 may be/or may comprise, for example, ascanner, a camera, a light sensor, a magnetic reader, and/or the like.In some embodiments, the image capture device 180 is a part of, or isintegral with the UI processing system 108. In some embodiments, theimage capture device 180 is a part of, or is integral with the entityserver 106. In some embodiments, the image capture device 180 is a partof, or is integral with the user device 104. In some embodiments, theimage capture device 180 is configured to construct static UI image(e.g., a static 2-D UI image) comprising hand-drawn images, wireframes,and/or the like associated with a UI desired to be constructed (e.g., aweb page, a mobile/smartphone application interface, etc.). Typically,the hand-drawn images, wireframes, and/or the like associated with a UIdesired to be constructed are hand-drawn or otherwise inscribed/providedon a paper or another physical/tangible object (e.g., as illustrated byFIG. 4), which are captured/scanned by the image capture device 180, andtransformed to construct the static UI image (e.g., in 2-D) as anelectronic file/document or image file (e.g., in JPEG, Exif, JFIF, GIF,BMP, TIFF, or another suitable format), e.g., with a predeterminedaspect ratio and/or resolution. Next, the system is configured toreceive the static UI image at the image segmentation application, asindicated by block 510.

As illustrated by block 515, the system is configured to identify theone or more UI image components in the static UI image based onprocessing the static UI image. The one or more UI image components maycomprise one or more of a window/container type (e.g., browser window,child window, pop-up window, dialog box, frame, canvas, cover flow,modal window, accordion, etc.) image component, a menu type (e.g., menubar, context menu, pie menu, drop down list having drop down items,combo box etc.), icon type (e.g., an icon representing a particularcommand like a search icon superimposed over a search box, scroll icon,select icon, open icon, etc.), control type (e.g., widgets, buttons,navigation controls, tabs, links, scrollbars, sliders, spinners,toolbars, ribbons, etc.), input type (e.g., radio button, check box,cycle button, text box, etc.), output type (e.g., text boxes, labels,tooltips, balloons, status bars, progress bars, infobars, visual contentboxes, etc.), etc., and/or a suitable combination thereof (e.g., asillustrated by FIG. 4).

Next, as illustrated by block 520, the system is configured to determineone or more dimensional boundaries associated with the one or more UIimage components. As discussed, each UI image component typicallycomprises or is associated with a component boundary, either providedphysically on the hand drawn sketch/visual representation 410 or notphysically present or perceptible on the hand drawn sketch/visualrepresentation 410 and are instead constructed/assigned by the imagesegmentation application(s) 212 during processing. Next, the systemtypically segments the static UI image into one or more UI imagesegments based on at least the component boundaries, wherein each UIimage segment is associated with a UI image component of the one or moreUI image components, as indicated by block 525.

As illustrated by block 530, the system typically determines, for eachof the one or more UI image segments, structural elements comprising aUI image component type, e.g., a window/container type (e.g., browserwindow type, child window type, pop-up window type, dialog box type,frame type, canvas type, cover flow type, modal window type, accordiontype, etc.), a menu type (e.g., menu bar type, context menu type, piemenu type, drop down list type having drop down items, combo box typeetc.), icon type (e.g., a search icon type, scroll icon type, selecticon type, open icon type, etc.), control type (e.g., widget type,button type, navigation control type, tab type, link type, scrollbartype, slider type, spinner type, toolbar type, ribbon type, etc.), inputtype (e.g., radio button type, check box type, cycle button type, textbox type, search box type etc.), output type (e.g., text box type, labeltype, tooltip type, balloon type, status bar type, progress bar type,infobar type, visual content box type, etc.), etc.

Also, as illustrated by block 535, the system determines, for each ofthe one or more UI image segments, structural elements comprising a UIimage component spatial location. For instance, the system may determinespatial location coordinates of each of the UI image components, eitherbased on absolute coordinates (e.g., using Cartesian/polar/cylindricalcoordinates after setting an origin/reference (0,0) at are suitablepoint on the browser window or page 405 comprising the base hierarchylevel HL0), based on relative coordinates indicating relative positionsof each of the UI image components (e.g., relative positions of adjacentUI image components, relative positions of superimposed/overlapping UIimage components, etc.), based on coordinates of thedetermined/constructed component boundaries, and/or like. In someembodiments, the spatial location coordinates also comprise the sizeand/or shape of the UI image component relative to the rest of the UIimage. Finally, the system also determines, for each of the one or moreUI image segments, structural elements comprising a UI image componenthierarchy level, at block 540, as described with respect to FIGS. 3 and4. Subsequently, the system transmits the UI image structural element(s)for each of the one or more UI image segments to the UI componentgeneration application(s), as indicated by block 545, via pipeline 220a. In addition, as indicated by block 550, the system transmits the UIimage structural element(s) for each of the one or more UI imagesegments to the UI component generation application(s) and/or UIcomponent discriminators, via pipeline 220 b, from where the flowcontrol proceeds to the UI component transformation module 230 describedwith respect to FIG. 6 below.

FIG. 6, illustrates a high level process flow 600 for user interfacecomponent transformation and validation, in accordance with oneembodiment of the present invention. Each of the attentive componentbuilding applications A₁, A₂, . . . and/or A_(N) (234 a, 234 b, . . .and/or 234 n) of the UI component generation application(s) 232,retrieves requisite/pertinent structural elements (e.g., UI imagecomponent type, UI image spatial location, etc.) associated with the UIimage segments corresponding to the compatible hierarchy level from thepipeline 220 a. The UI component generation application(s) 232 alsoreceives the structural elements (e.g., UI image hierarchy level, UIimage spatial location, etc.) for each of the one or more imagesegments, at the base transformation application F₀ 2360, e.g., viapipeline 220 b.

Typically, the base transformation application F₀ 2360 is associatedwith a zero/base hierarchy level, e.g., webpage/page background level orHL0 and is also configured for performing image pre-processing. The basetransformation application F₀ 2360 retrieves the structural elements(e.g., UI image hierarchy level, UI image spatial location, etc.) foreach of the one or more image segments and/or the one or more UI imagesegments from the pipeline 220 b. Next, as illustrated by block 605, thesystem, i.e., the first transformation program 2350 (also referred to asa fully connected layer construction and reshape program 2350) theconstructs a fully connected UI layer associated with the one or more UIimage segments, (e.g., based on at least transforming the UI imagesegments). The first transformation program 2350 typically comprises adeep learning architecture which operatively connects all the layersassociated with the UI image segments. Here, the first transformationprogram 2350 identifies critical features of the UI image segments andparses them.

However, the visual representations of the desired UI in the static UIimage 205, particularly, hand drawn images are typically ofinconsistent, varying and/or sometimes incorrect dimensions and sizes.To correct these deficiencies, the system, i.e., the firsttransformation program 2350 performs shape transformation by reshapingthe one or more UI image segments, at block 610. Here, the firsttransformation program 2350 standardizes the one or more UI imagesegments of the prior image processing steps. The first transformationprogram 2350 may then construct a matrix structure of a predeterminedformat and attributes from the reshaped UI image segments.

Next, one or more second transformation programs 2370 (also referred toas an image structure upsampling program 2370) perform furthertransformations of the fully connected layers with reshape constructedby the first transformation program 2350. However, the resolution of thefully connected layers with reshape constructed by the firsttransformation program 2350 typically is defective/unreliable in thatdue to poor or inconsistent resolution, (i) constructing the associatedUI image component objects maybe erroneous and/or (ii) any constructedUI image component objects cannot be correctly validated (e.g., bydiscriminator modules 240) due to resolution defects in images. Tocorrect these deficiencies, the one or more second transformationprograms 2370 perform upsampling transformations of the fully connectedlayers with reshape. The upsampling transformations may comprisetransforming the resolution of the image segments until a predeterminedimage quality is attained across all of the image segments, so thatcorrect UI image component objects can be constructed and validated withaccuracy.

Next, at block 615, the system is configured to construct, an associatedUI component object for each of the one or more UI image segments,typically, in ascending order of their hierarchies. The UI componentobjects are actionable, functional, UI components that areembedded/superimposed onto a webpage to construct the desired UIassociated with the static UI image. The UI component generationapplication(s) 232 comprise one or more attentive component buildingapplications A₁, A₂, . . . and/or A_(N) (234 a, 234 b, . . . and/or 234n), each being associated with constructing UI component objects for aparticular component hierarchy level of the UI image segments based onreceived UI image structural elements 214 (e.g., a UI image componenttype) from the UI Image segment pipeline 220 a. Each one or moreattentive component building applications A₁, A₂, . . . and/or A_(N)(234 a, 234 b, . . . and/or 234 n) is also referred to as an attentionlayer. Attentive component building application A₁ (234 a) constructs UIcomponent objects for UI image segments of the first hierarchy level,the application A₂ (234 b) constructs UI component objects for UI imagesegments of the second hierarchy level, . . . application A_(N) (234 n)constructs UI component objects for UI image segments of the N^(th)hierarchy level, until all of the UI component objects of all of thehierarchy levels of the UI images segments have been constructed. Theattentive component building applications, focus on each attentionlayer, object by object, complete the layer before moving onto the next.Although, this process is explained with respect to a constructing afirst UI component object for a first UI image segment of the one ormore UI image segments of a particular hierarchy level, the steps aresubstantially similar for each of the UI component objects of the one ormore UI image segments. The attentive component building application A₁(234 a) extracts UI image structural elements associated with the firstUI image segment from pipeline 220 and analyzes the same along with thecritical features of the first UI image segment from the basetransformation application F₀ 2360. The attentive component buildingapplication A₁ (234 a) then constructs an actionable, functional firstUI component object that matches the UI image structural elements andcritical features of the first UI image segment. In some embodiments,the attentive component building application A₁ (234 a) extractscomponent structures, arrangements, shapes, images, and/or the like thatmatch the UI image structural elements and critical features of thefirst UI image segment from a UI component distribution stored at afirst database/repository comprising UI component objects (e.g., of thetechnology system).

In addition, the system is configured to validate the constructed UIcomponent object. Here, the system typically generates a firstconvolution associated with the first UI component object, as indicatedby block 620, e.g., by the convolution application G₁ 239 a. Theconvolution application G₁ 239 a performs a convolution transformationof the first UI component objects to reduce the object to apredetermined reduced structure (e.g., a reduced structure of a size 3×3pixels) such that convolution comprises critical or distinctive featuresof first UI component object (even after the reduction). Performing theconvolution transformations prior to validation by the discriminatornetwork, provides yet another advantage and improvement to technology.Validating the functional UI component objects, even if possible, iscumbersome, time intensive and requires immense processing power.Specifically, constructing the convolution with predetermined reducedstructure having critical or distinctive features of first UI componentobject, and validating the convolution by the discriminator module,instead of the functional UI component object, significantly reduces theprocessing power and operational time required for the discriminatormodule to evaluate and validate the UI component object.

As indicated by block 625, the system is configured to perform, via adiscriminator, validation of the constructed first UI component object.For instance, the discriminator application D₁ 244 b analyses theconvolution of the constructed first UI component object in conjunctionwith UI image structural elements associated with the first UI imagesegment extracted from pipeline 220 b. The discriminator compares thefeatures of the convolution of the constructed first UI component objectwith that of the UI image structural elements to determine the accuracyof the construction UI component object by the generative network's(i.e., UI component generation application 232).

In response to an unsuccessful validation (i.e., the accuracy beinglesser than a predetermined threshold), the system may determine aresidual of the constructed first UI component object, as indicated byblock 630. The residual indicates how far off or how inaccurate theconstructed UI component object is, in comparison with the correspondingUI image segment. This residual is transmitted back to the attentivecomponent building application A₁ (234 a). The residual is constructedas a trigger signal (i) that indicates a measure of inaccuracy of theconstructed UI component object and (ii) that triggers/causes theattentive component building application A₁ (234 a) to construct acorrect UI component object corresponding to the first UI image segment.The residual also had a function in aiding in the self-learning of theattentive component building application A₁ (234 a) by indicating areasof error. Here, the control flows back to the construction of one ormore UI image segments at block 615. The one or more fourthtransformation programs (238 a, 238 b, . . . and/or 238 n) of theattentive component building application A₁ 234 a then analyze theresidual and construct a second UI component object corresponding to thefirst UI image segment. This second UI component object is validated bythe discriminator application D₁ 244 b in conjunction with UI imagestructural elements associated with the first UI image segment extractedfrom pipeline 220 b, as described above. This cycle continues until asuccessful validation of the UI component object associated with thefirst UI image segment (i.e., the accuracy being greater than or equalto the predetermined threshold). For instance, the attentive componentbuilding application A₁ (234 a) may also construct third, fourth orN^(th) objects until the successful validation by the discriminator.

In response to a successful validation of the first UI component object(or the N^(th) object associated with the first image segment that hasbeen successfully validated), however, the system is configured toperform an upsampling transformation of the first UI component object,based on at least the associated UI image component hierarchy level(and/or the UI image component spatial location), as illustrated byblock 635. This is typically performed by the fifth transformationprogram or image structure upsampling program 237 a of the attentivecomponent building application A₁ (234 a). Specifically, the upsamplingtransformation comprises transforming the resolution of the first UIcomponent object, such that the first UI component object is compatiblefor embedding into the webpage/base layer constructed by the basetransformation application F₀ 2360. Here, in some embodiments, thesystem may perform the upsampling transformation in response todetermining that the previously constructed first UI component object(untransformed) in not compatible for embedding at the associated (i)the UI image component hierarchy level and/or (ii) the UI imagecomponent spatial location.

Next, as illustrated by block 640, the system is configured to constructan operational user interface by embedding, by the attentive componentbuilding application A₁ (234 a), the constructed first UI componentobject into the operational user interface (e.g., webpage/base layerconstructed by the base transformation application F₀ 2360) based on atleast the associated (i) UI image component hierarchy level and (ii) UIimage component spatial location of the associated first UI imagesegment. The size, spacing, orientation, spatial location and hierarchyof the first UI component object is made compatible/consistent with thatof the associated first UI image segment in the static UI image.

In this way, the attentive component building application A₁ (234 a)constructs corresponding UI component object for each of the UI imagesegments of hierarchy level 1 (HL1). After successful validation, theattentive component building application A₁ (234 a) embeds each of theUI component objects of hierarchy level 1 into the operational userinterface. Next, the control flows back to the construction of one ormore UI image segments at block 615. The attentive component buildingapplication A₂ (234 b) constructs corresponding UI component object foreach of the UI image segments of hierarchy level 2 (HL2). Aftersuccessful validation, the attentive component building application A₂(234 b) embeds each of the UI component objects of the second hierarchylevel into the operational user interface, correctly superimposed overthe objects of the first hierarchy level. This process proceeds, until,the attentive component building application A_(N) (234 n) embeds eachof the UI component objects of the highest N^(th) hierarchy level intothe operational user interface, correctly superimposed over the objectsof the preceding hierarchy levels. In this manner, the system constructsan operational user interface comprising UI component objects associatedwith all of the UI image segments, i.e., associated with all of the UIimage components in the static UI image. This operational user interfaceemulates the look and feel of the static visual representation of thestatic UI image, but however, comprises functional UI component objects.In order to transform the operational user interface into aready-to-use, actionable interface, the control moves to the actionableUI component construction module 250, as will be described below withrespect to FIG. 7. Moreover, the entirety of the operational userinterface construction is performed in a technology-agnostic manner.This provides an unique and additional improvement to technologybecause, the operational user interface constructed in accordance withprocess flows 500-600 is technology-agnostic and can be easily portableto any operational system framework with minima time and processingresources, without laborious modification of the operational userinterface and the UI component object therein.

FIG. 7, illustrates a high level process flow 700 for actionable userinterface component and operational user interface construction, inaccordance with one embodiment of the present invention, typicallyperformed via the actionable UI component construction module 250. Asillustrated by block 705, the system is configured to process theoperational user interface to transform the operational user interfacebased on predetermined visual parameters. Here, the transformationapplication 252 typically transforms the operational user interface to apredetermined enhanced structure (e.g., a structure of a size 265×256pixels across 3 channels (e.g., red, green and blue), i.e., 265×256×3)such that the enhanced operational user interface comprises added detailand/or is compatible for clear display in the intended medium (e.g.,smartphone, laptop, smart TV, etc.).

Next, the system typically determines an operating system frameworkassociated with the static UI image, i.e., the UI desired to beconstructed, at block 710. The operating system framework may comprise atype of operating system (e.g., iOS, Android, or another mobileoperating system, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, or another graphicaloperating system, etc.), a type of programing language (e.g., Java,etc.), and/or a type of software framework (e.g., .NET Framework, etc.).In some embodiments, the system may determine the operating systemframework based on analyzing the static UI image, based on the type,names, content, shape, arrangement, etc. of UI image component therein.In some embodiments, the system may receive a user input indicating theoperating system framework.

Subsequently, at block 715, the system, at the UI encoder 254, isconfigured to generate functional source code for each UI componentobject of the operational user interface based on at least the operatingsystem framework. The functional source code is generated such that thecode renders/transforms/provides functionality (e.g., makes them activeor ready to use) to the UI component object. Here, the system maydetermine at least one action/function to be performed by the UIcomponent object. For example, for a UI component object of a radiobutton, the system may determine an action of receiving a user input inthe form of a click/touch/tap within a predetermined portion of theradio button and another action of transmitting a signal to anotherpredetermined module/hardware indicating the input. As another example,for a UI component object of a submit button, the system may determinean action of receiving a user input in the form of a click/touch/tapwithin a predetermined portion of the submit button and an action oftriggering display a pop-up window thereafter in response to the userinput. The UI encoder 254 then generates the functional source code thatcan implement/execute the identified at least one action.

Next, the system, at the image technology mapping application 256, isconfigured to map the functional source code with an associated UIcomponent object, for each UI component object of the operational userinterface, thereby constructing actionable UI component objects in theoperational user interface, as indicated by block 720. These actionableUI component objects can now perform/implement/execute the identified atleast one action. This transforms/renders the operational userinterfaces and the UI component objects therein to be dynamic,actionable and ready-to-use. In some embodiments, the image technologymapping application 256 may also map data sources with the correspondingactionable UI component objects. This underscores the technologyagnostic nature of the unique UI construction of the present inventionbecause, a significant majority of the operational user interfaceconstruction is performed in a technology agnostic manner and theoperating system framework specific code is mapped only at the finalstage/steps.

Finally, as indicated by block 725, the system, via the user interfacepackage 258, is configured to transmit the operational user interfacehaving the one or more actionable UI component objects. In this regard,the system may initiate presentation of the construction operationaluser interface on a display of a user device.

As will be appreciated by one of ordinary skill in the art, the presentinvention may be embodied as an apparatus (including, for example, asystem, a machine, a device, a computer program product, and/or thelike), as a method (including, for example, a business process, acomputer-implemented process, and/or the like), or as any combination ofthe foregoing. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention maytake the form of an entirely software embodiment (including firmware,resident software, micro-code, and the like), an entirely hardwareembodiment, or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspectsthat may generally be referred to herein as a “system.” Furthermore,embodiments of the present invention may take the form of a computerprogram product that includes a computer-readable storage medium havingcomputer-executable program code portions stored therein. As usedherein, a processor may be “configured to” perform a certain function ina variety of ways, including, for example, by having one or morespecial-purpose circuits perform the functions by executing one or morecomputer-executable program code portions embodied in acomputer-readable medium, and/or having one or more application-specificcircuits perform the function.

It will be understood that any suitable computer-readable medium may beutilized. The computer-readable medium may include, but is not limitedto, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, such as a tangibleelectronic, magnetic, optical, infrared, electromagnetic, and/orsemiconductor system, apparatus, and/or device. For example, in someembodiments, the non-transitory computer-readable medium includes atangible medium such as a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, arandom access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasableprogrammable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), a compact discread-only memory (CD-ROM), and/or some other tangible optical and/ormagnetic storage device. In other embodiments of the present invention,however, the computer-readable medium may be transitory, such as apropagation signal including computer-executable program code portionsembodied therein.

It will also be understood that one or more computer-executable programcode portions for carrying out the specialized operations of the presentinvention may be required on the specialized computer includeobject-oriented, scripted, and/or unscripted programming languages, suchas, for example, Java, Perl, Smalltalk, C++, SAS, SQL, Python, ObjectiveC, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the one or morecomputer-executable program code portions for carrying out operations ofembodiments of the present invention are written in conventionalprocedural programming languages, such as the “C” programming languagesand/or similar programming languages. The computer program code mayalternatively or additionally be written in one or more multi-paradigmprogramming languages, such as, for example, F #.

It will further be understood that some embodiments of the presentinvention are described herein with reference to flowchart illustrationsand/or block diagrams of systems, methods, and/or computer programproducts. It will be understood that each block included in theflowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations ofblocks included in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams,may be implemented by one or more computer-executable program codeportions.

It will also be understood that the one or more computer-executableprogram code portions may be stored in a transitory or non-transitorycomputer-readable medium (e.g., a memory, and the like) that can directa computer and/or other programmable data processing apparatus tofunction in a particular manner, such that the computer-executableprogram code portions stored in the computer-readable medium produce anarticle of manufacture, including instruction mechanisms which implementthe steps and/or functions specified in the flowchart(s) and/or blockdiagram block(s).

The one or more computer-executable program code portions may also beloaded onto a computer and/or other programmable data processingapparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on thecomputer and/or other programmable apparatus. In some embodiments, thisproduces a computer-implemented process such that the one or morecomputer-executable program code portions which execute on the computerand/or other programmable apparatus provide operational steps toimplement the steps specified in the flowchart(s) and/or the functionsspecified in the block diagram block(s). Alternatively,computer-implemented steps may be combined with operator and/orhuman-implemented steps in order to carry out an embodiment of thepresent invention.

While certain exemplary embodiments have been described and shown in theaccompanying drawings, it is to be understood that such embodiments aremerely illustrative of, and not restrictive on, the broad invention, andthat this invention not be limited to the specific constructions andarrangements shown and described, since various other changes,combinations, omissions, modifications and substitutions, in addition tothose set forth in the above paragraphs, are possible. Those skilled inthe art will appreciate that various adaptations and modifications ofthe just described embodiments can be configured without departing fromthe scope and spirit of the invention. Therefore, it is to be understoodthat, within the scope of the appended claims, the invention may bepracticed other than as specifically described herein.

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U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. Title Filed On 16/210,820 SYSTEM FORIMAGE Dec. 5, 2018 SEGMENTATION, TRANSFORMATION AND USER INTERFACECOMPONENT CONSTRUCTION

The invention claimed is:
 1. A system for user interface constructionbased on transforming interface image segments static images intoactionable user interface components, wherein the system is configuredfor user interface construction based on dynamic and operativecommunication between a generative network and a discriminative network,the system comprising: at least one memory device with computer-readableprogram code stored thereon; at least one communication device; at leastone processing device operatively coupled to the at least one memorydevice and the at least one communication device, wherein executing thecomputer-readable code is configured to cause the at least oneprocessing device to: capture a static image of a visual representationof an user interface (UI), wherein the static UI image comprises atwo-dimensional visual representation of one or more UI image componentsof the UI; segment the static UI image into UI image segments, whereineach UI image segment is associated with a UI image component of the oneor more UI image components; construct at a generative network, for afirst UI image segment of the UI image segments, an associated first UIcomponent object; perform, at a discriminative network, via adiscriminator, validation of the constructed first UI component object;in response to successful validation of the constructed first UIcomponent object, construct an operational user interface by embeddingthe constructed first UI component object into the operational userinterface based on at least an associated (i) UI image componenthierarchy level and (ii) UI image component spatial location of thefirst UI image segment associated with the first UI component object,wherein constructing the operational user interface further comprises:determining an operating system framework associated with theoperational user interface; generating, at a UI encoder, firstfunctional source code for the first UI component object based on atleast the operating system framework; and transforming the first UIcomponent object into a first actionable UI component object by mappingthe first functional source code with the first UI component object. 2.The system of claim 1, wherein the visual representation of the UIcomprises a hand drawn image and/or a wireframe associated with the UI.3. The system of claim 1, wherein executing the computer-readable codeis configured to further cause the at least one processing device to:generate, at the generative network, a first convolution associated withthe constructed first UI component object; transmit the firstconvolution to a discriminative network comprising at least thediscriminator; wherein, performing validation of the constructed firstUI component object at the discriminator of the discriminative networkfurther comprises: performing validation of the constructed first UIcomponent object by analyzing the first convolution, wherein validatingthe constructed first UI component object comprises determining anaccuracy of the constructed first UI component object based on analyzingthe first convolution with respect to structural elements associatedwith the first UI image segment, wherein the structural elementscomprise a UI image component type, a UI image component spatiallocation, and a UI image component hierarchy level; and transmitting,from the discriminative network to the generative network, a signalindicating the successful or unsuccessful validation of the constructedfirst UI component object.
 4. The system of claim 3, wherein executingthe computer-readable code is configured to further cause the at leastone processing device to: in response to the successful validation ofthe constructed first UI component object by the discriminator, performan upsampling transformation of the first UI component object, based onat least the associated UI image component hierarchy level to render theUI component object compatible for embedding into a UI interface layerat the associated component hierarchy level; and construct theoperational user interface by embedding the transformed first UIcomponent object into the operational user interface, wherein thetransformed first UI component object is compatible for embedding intothe UI interface layer of the operational user interface at (i) the UIimage component hierarchy level and (ii) the UI image component spatiallocation.
 5. The system of claim 4, wherein executing thecomputer-readable code is configured to further cause the at least oneprocessing device to perform the upsampling transformation of the firstUI component object in response to determine that the constructed firstUI component object is not compatible for embedding into the operationaluser interface at (i) the UI image component hierarchy level and/or (ii)the UI image component spatial location.
 6. The system of claim 3,wherein executing the computer-readable code is configured to furthercause the at least one processing device to: in response to anunsuccessful validation of the constructed first UI component object bythe discriminator, determine a residual of the constructed first UIcomponent object at the generative network; and reconstruct for thefirst UI image segment of the UI image segments, a second UI componentobject based on the residual.
 7. The system of claim 3, whereingenerating the first functional source code for the first UI componentobject further comprises generating the functional source code based onat least (i) at least one action to be performed by the first UIcomponent object, and (ii) the operating system framework, whereinmapping the first functional source code with the first UI componentobject is structured to configure the first actionable UI componentobject to perform the at least one action, wherein executing thecomputer-readable code is configured to further cause the at least oneprocessing device to: transmit the operational user interface having thefirst actionable UI component to a user device.
 8. The system of claim1, wherein executing the computer-readable code is configured to:reshape the UI image segments at the generative network to correct theUI image segments; and construct a fully connected UI layer associatedwith the UI image segments.
 9. The system of claim 1, whereinconstructing, at the generative network, the first UI component objectfor the first UI image segment further comprises: retrieving, for eachof the UI image segments, structural elements comprising a UI imagecomponent type, a UI image component spatial location, and a UI imagecomponent hierarchy level; extracting predetermined critical featuresfrom the first UI image segment, and constructing a functional UIcomponent object that matches the structural elements associated withthe first UI image segment and the extracted predetermined criticalfeatures.
 10. The system of claim 1, wherein executing thecomputer-readable code is configured to: analyze the static image toidentify the one or more UI image components in the static UI imagebased on processing the static UI image, wherein identifying the one ormore UI image components further comprises: determining one or moredimensional boundaries associated with the one or more UI imagecomponents; and wherein segmenting the static UI image further comprisessegmenting the static UI image into the UI image segments based on atleast the one or more dimensional boundaries.
 11. The system of claim 1,wherein the generative network further comprises an attentionalgenerative network comprising: a plurality of attentive componentbuilding applications, wherein each of the plurality of attentivecomponent building applications is associated with a UI image componenthierarchy level of a plurality of UI image component hierarchy levels ofthe static image, wherein each of the plurality of attentive componentbuilding applications is structured to construct one or more UIcomponent object of the associated UI image component hierarchy level; aplurality of UI component generation applications, wherein each of theplurality of UI component generation applications is structured totransform a UI component object constructed by an associated attentivecomponent building application of the plurality of attentive componentbuilding applications; and a plurality of convolution applications,wherein each of the plurality of convolution applications is structuredto perform a convolution transformation of a transformed UI componentobject from an associated UI component generation application of theplurality of UI component generation applications.
 12. The system ofclaim 1 further comprises one or more image segmentation applicationsstructured to segment the static UI image into the UI image segments,wherein the one or more image segmentation applications are associatedwith a Mask Regional Convolutional Neural Network (Mask RCNN).
 13. Acomputer program product for user interface construction based ontransforming interface image segments static images into actionable userinterface components, wherein the computer program product is configuredfor user interface construction based on dynamic and operativecommunication between a generative network and a discriminative network,the computer program product comprising a non-transitorycomputer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructionsto: capture a static image of a visual representation of an userinterface (UI), wherein the static UI image comprises a two-dimensionalvisual representation of one or more UI image components of the UI;segment the static UI image into UI image segments, wherein each UIimage segment is associated with a UI image component of the one or moreUI image components; construct at a generative network, for a first UIimage segment of the UI image segments, an associated first UI componentobject; perform, at a discriminative network, via a discriminator,validation of the constructed first UI component object; in response tosuccessful validation of the constructed first UI component object,construct an operational user interface by embedding the constructedfirst UI component object into the operational user interface based onat least an associated (i) UI image component hierarchy level and (ii)UI image component spatial location of the first UI image segmentassociated with the first UI component object, wherein constructing theoperational user interface further comprises: determining an operatingsystem framework associated with the operational user interface;generating, at a UI encoder, first functional source code for the firstUI component object based on at least the operating system framework;and transforming the first UI component object into a first actionableUI component object by mapping the first functional source code with thefirst UI component object.
 14. The computer program product of claim 13,wherein the visual representation of the UI comprises a hand drawn imageand/or a wireframe associated with the UI.
 15. The computer programproduct of claim 13, wherein the non-transitory computer-readablestorage medium further comprises computer-executable instructions to:generate, at the generative network, a first convolution associated withthe constructed first UI component object; transmit the firstconvolution to a discriminative network comprising at least thediscriminator; wherein, performing validation of the constructed firstUI component object at the discriminator of the discriminative networkfurther comprises: performing validation of the constructed first UIcomponent object by analyzing the first convolution, wherein validatingthe constructed first UI component object comprises determining anaccuracy of the constructed first UI component object based on analyzingthe first convolution with respect to structural elements associatedwith the first UI image segment, wherein the structural elementscomprise a UI image component type, a UI image component spatiallocation, and a UI image component hierarchy level; and transmitting,from the discriminative network to the generative network, a signalindicating the successful or unsuccessful validation of the constructedfirst UI component object.
 16. The computer program product of claim 15,wherein the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium furthercomprises computer-executable instructions to: in response to thesuccessful validation of the constructed first UI component object bythe discriminator, perform an upsampling transformation of the first UIcomponent object, based on at least the associated UI image componenthierarchy level to render the UI component object compatible forembedding into a UI interface layer at the associated componenthierarchy level; and construct the operational user interface byembedding the transformed first UI component object into the operationaluser interface, wherein the transformed first UI component object iscompatible for embedding into the UI interface layer of the operationaluser interface at (i) the UI image component hierarchy level and (ii)the UI image component spatial location.
 17. A method for user interfaceconstruction based on transforming interface image segments staticimages into actionable user interface components, wherein the method isconfigured for user interface construction based on dynamic andoperative communication between a generative network and adiscriminative network, the method comprising: capturing a static imageof a visual representation of an user interface (UI), wherein the staticUI image comprises a two-dimensional visual representation of one ormore UI image components of the UI; segmenting the static UI image intoUI image segments, wherein each UI image segment is associated with a UIimage component of the one or more UI image components; constructing ata generative network, for a first UI image segment of the UI imagesegments, an associated first UI component object; performing, at adiscriminative network, via a discriminator, validation of theconstructed first UI component object; in response to successfulvalidation of the constructed first UI component object, constructing anoperational user interface by embedding the constructed first UIcomponent object into the operational user interface based on at leastan associated (i) UI image component hierarchy level and (ii) UI imagecomponent spatial location of the first UI image segment associated withthe first UI component object, wherein constructing the operational userinterface further comprises: determining an operating system frameworkassociated with the operational user interface; generating, at a UIencoder, first functional source code for the first UI component objectbased on at least the operating system framework; and transforming thefirst UI component object into a first actionable UI component object bymapping the first functional source code with the first UI componentobject.
 18. The method of claim 17, wherein the visual representation ofthe UI comprises a hand drawn image and/or a wireframe associated withthe UI.
 19. The method of claim 17, wherein the method furthercomprises: generating, at the generative network, a first convolutionassociated with the constructed first UI component object; transmittingthe first convolution to a discriminative network comprising at leastthe discriminator; wherein, performing validation of the constructedfirst UI component object at the discriminator of the discriminativenetwork further comprises: performing validation of the constructedfirst UI component object by analyzing the first convolution, whereinvalidating the constructed first UI component object comprisesdetermining an accuracy of the constructed first UI component objectbased on analyzing the first convolution with respect to structuralelements associated with the first UI image segment, wherein thestructural elements comprise a UI image component type, a UI imagecomponent spatial location, and a UI image component hierarchy level;and transmitting, from the discriminative network to the generativenetwork, a signal indicating the successful or unsuccessful validationof the constructed first UI component object.
 20. The method of claim19, wherein the method further comprises: in response to the successfulvalidation of the constructed first UI component object by thediscriminator, performing an upsampling transformation of the first UIcomponent object, based on at least the associated UI image componenthierarchy level to render the UI component object compatible forembedding into a UI interface layer at the associated componenthierarchy level; and constructing the operational user interface byembedding the transformed first UI component object into the operationaluser interface, wherein the transformed first UI component object iscompatible for embedding into the UI interface layer of the operationaluser interface at (i) the UI image component hierarchy level and (ii)the UI image component spatial location.